Abstract
The Turbulent Eddy Profiler (TEP) is a volume-imaging 915 MHz radar designed for atmospheric boundary-layer turbulence studies. The TEP system is a pulsed, phased-array radar that uses digital beamforming techniques in order to provide four-dimensional images of C/sub n//sup 2/ fluctuations and wind vectors on grid scales comparable to those of large-eddy simulations (LES). In this paper the authors present results from an August 1996 deployment of TEP, including preliminary comparisons of TEP data and LES results. Vertical profiles of C/sub n//sup 2/ fluctuations are presented for a highly convective boundary layer. Those results are compared to published data simulated with LES from similar conditions. The measured variability of C/sub n//sup 2/ agrees well in the high signal-to-noise regions of the TEP data.
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